Oh Blast

Getting ready for RAI (Radiation Ablation) on Wednesday and today I woke up with blocked tear ducts and swollen eyes. This has not been happening to me. I have read all the horrible things that happen to other people with this Cancer but all it has done up til now has terrified me and also made me happy at every step of the way that I live in Seattle and have managed to get good Doctors along the way. I have had relatively few adverse side effects. Sure my voice is still screwed up enough from my surgery that Maui my Macaw is still not sure that I am really me. But it seems to be getting better. The Low Iodine Diet has been annoying but not impossible to deal with. The worse thing being no dairy no soy so no Latte's I just don't like black coffee that much. Going off the Thyroid hormone has made my core body temp freak out and made me stupider and more tired. But I have been able to deal with it ok.
Well today I woke up with great swollen eyes from blocked tear ducts. Not sure if it is from being Hypothyroid or just getting over a head cold, or the scan dose of radiation on Friday. Or all of it at once. Many people on the thyca alias have had this type of thing happen but usually after the Ablation dose of radiation, not the scan dose. Oh well warm compresses, eye drops and hope it goes away - Also made a LID (Low Iodine) compliant version of hot and sour soup to try to get my eyes watering.... I don't think it worked.